Main topics of the year, with hyperlinks to take you to pages with photos.
- Planting fruit trees in February, in the dark
- Skiing with Rowena in the Italian Dolomites
- In March my employer announced they will be closing the site I work on & relocating to Cambridge by end 2016
- Created a "My last 100 Munros" blog. Still trying to master it & catch up
- Spreading pony pooh on our garden the same day that the neighbours had a party BBQ.
- I was regularly running 5000m (built up to 3 times a week until May) until my knees let me down, literally.
- Holiday on the Isle of Mull (no peaks due to damaged knees), where the video that had been cooking for weeks was completed (note re-wrenching of shoulder that had been receiving physiotherapy)
- The girls went to Paris with school on consecutive weekends. Waited 3am to 4.30 am for one coach return.
- Walked the 3 Peaks of North Yorkshire for the third time
- Harvests of gooseberries & blackcurrants from the back garden (raspberries dried in the summer heat)
- Walked the Grey corries & nearby peaks in Scotland in the hottest weather (lots of horseflies)
- Trip to Cambridge, Cambridge folk festival, then Canterbury, Hastings. Extremely hot.
- Trips to London for Penny's 50th (Pompeii exhibition, Houses of Parliament tour, dinner at the Savoy)
- Some limited success in growing tomatoes
- Rowena started GCSEs, and Clara started playing "full contact" rugby.
- In September my employer announced an acceleration of the "UK footprint" programme ie: moving to Cambridge earlier than announced.
- Walked the South Cluanie ridge in October (7 Munros in one go).
- Grew a moustache for Movember. Very pleased when I shaved itoff
- In November my department announced a major reduction in numbers, and invited applications for voluntary redundancy to start Feb 2014. Looking forward to doing something different.
- Started a course at Manchester University in Health Informatics: I am officially a student again, including NUS card.
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